The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
. . . You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts.
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but. " If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.
Resist. Unlearn. Defy.
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn
